Regardless of the principles of its organization and level of functioning, the main task of any health care system is to provide a guaranteed opportunity for every citizen of the country to live a long, healthy, and productive life. Medical professionals face an essential task – to provide timely assistance. The importance of making a correct diagnosis is obvious – even the most correct treatment for a false diagnosis can cause serious harm to health.
The diagnosis of a fifty-year-old man can be pneumonia. Most likely, the patient is suffering from viral pneumonia, as the man mentioned the recent illness of a neighbor. For a mild degree of this disease, a light state of intoxication, light fever with a temperature up to 38°C, normal arterial pressure, and a heartbeat less than 90 beats per minute, no difficulty in breathing, and the insignificant inflammatory phenomenon is found (Marchello et al., 2019). In most lung diseases, the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, which doctors call pneumococcus, is to blame (Weiser et al., 2018). The peculiarities of the duration of pneumonia are defined by the seriousness, the features of the causative agent, and the existence of harmful consequences. Their occurrence is hazardous for elderly patients, therefore timely treatment is necessary.
The exact cause of respiratory diseases, accompanied by a cough with green sputum, is designed to establish diagnostics. Such studies as biochemical blood tests, respiratory tract examinations, and bacterioscopy sputum smears are required. Azithromycin, a macrolide group antibiotic, should be prescribed. It has a broad spectrum of antimicrobial action, and Gram-positive microorganisms are sensitive to it (Keenan et al., 2019). The patient can also be prescribed oseltamivir (Tamiflu), which inhibits neuraminidase and destroys the receptors of the infected cell for viral hemagglutinin (Shi et al., 2017). Due to the inhibition, the release of viruses from infected cells and the spread of the virus are reduced.
In conclusion, the patient can be diagnosed with a case of viral pneumonia. Pneumonia is a lung disease, an acute and severe disease of the inferior breathing organs of a contagious kind. This is indicated by the symptoms and the recent illness of a neighbor, from which the man could become infected. For treatment, the antibiotics Azithromycin and Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) can be used.
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